Biodiesel Glycerin Valorization into Oxygenated Fuel Additives

Studies on Oxygenated Fuel Additives: Ethers and Acetals

Ever increasing political pressure for a cleaner environment has triggered large research efforts over the past decade within the automobile and solvent industries to develop new, oxygenated, low atmospheric reactivity fuels and solvents, respectively. The main stimulus for the interest in such compounds in Europe is existing or pending legislation demanding the regulation of the reactivity of ...

Reduction of Exhaust Emissions on a Biodiesel fuelled Diesel Engine with the Effect of Oxygenated Additives

AR.Manickam , K.Rajan , N.Manoharan & KR. Senthil Kumar d a Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, AMET University, Chennai. Email: [email protected] b Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr.M.G.R. University, Chenna-95,India c Professor &Director Research, AMET University, Chennai, India. d Professor& Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, RMK En...

Study of Combustion Characteristics of an SI Engine Fuelled with Ethanol and Oxygenated Fuel Additives

This study investigates the effects of ethanol-blended gasoline with oxygenated additives on a multi – cylinder Spark Ignition (SI) Engine. The experiments were conducted in two stages. In stage I, the test fuels were prepared using 99.9% pure ethanol and gasoline with a cycloheptanol blend, in the ratio of E69.5 + 0.5 cycloheptanol, E64.6 + 0.4 cycloheptanol, E59.7 + 0.3 cycloheptanol, E49.8 +...

Synthesis of oxygenated fuel additives via the solventless etherification of glycerol.

The synthesis of oxygenated fuel additives via solvent freebase-catalyzed etherification of glycerol is reported. The products of glycerol etherification arediglycerol (DG) and triglycerol (TG) with DG being the favorable one. The catalytic activity of different homogeneous alkali catalysts (LiOH, NaOH, KOH and Na(2)CO(3)) was investigated during the glycerol etherification process. LiOH exhibi...

Valorization of Waste Cooking Oil into Biodiesel over Heteropolyacids Immobilized on Mesoporous Silica — A Kinetic Study